Circle X (EP)

Circle X (officially untitled^[1]) is an EP and the debut release by American experimental rock band Circle X. It was on 12" vinyl in 1980 in France, through then-nascent record label Celluloid.^[1]

Circle X
EP by Circle X
Released	1980
Genre	No wave
Label	Celluloid
Circle X chronology
Circle X (1980) Prehistory (1983)

Background

CMJ described the album as a "raw, alien, dense set of four tuneless almost-not-even-songs made of spattered guitar, drums and Tony Pinotti's wrecked, howling voice".^[2]

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tender"	2:34
2.	"Albeit Living"	2:30

Side B

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Onward Christian Soldiers"	3:34
2.	"Underworld"	2:54

Critical reception

Trouser Press opined that the EP was "practically unmatched in its day. [...] Nothing sounded like this in 1979. Circle X caught the tail end of the no wave scene and out-waved it with a mere four ear-splitting compositions."^[3]

Re-issues

Circle X was later re-issued on CD in 1996 through label Dexter's Cigar. It was re-issued on 12" vinyl in Germany in 2009 through label Insolito.

Personnel

• David Letendre – drums, guitar
• Rik Letendre – guitar, drums
• Tony Pinotti – vocals
• Bruce Witsiepe – guitar